TheraTogs ULTRA Lower Extremity System

TheraTogs ultra lower extremity system is a successful intervention for the treatment of neuromotor, balance, and gait disorders caused by cerebral palsy, hypotonia, ligament laxity, and hemiplegia caused by stroke or TBI. The lower extremity system addresses alignment and functional deviations of knee joints, developing femurs, and hip joints in an independently ambulatory child and an ambulatory adult with no hip or trunk stability problems.

Indications

• Hypotonia
• Cerebral palsy
• Ligament laxity
• Hemiplegia due to stroke or TBI
• Excessive flexible foot supination caused by ligament laxity
• Genu varum or genu valgum is caused by knee joint ligament laxity
• Persistent flexible foot pronation in hips/knees caused by hypotonia or ligament laxity
• Excess anterior pelvic tilt caused by excessive femoral torsion or excessive leg or foot rotation
• Intoed gait in a child <7 years caused by excessive femoral torsion or excessive leg or foot rotation
• Knee hyperextension in a child age <7 years or newly acquired knee hyperextension, caused by cerebral palsy, hypotonia, or ligament laxity
• Inadequate swing-phase knee extension in gait resulting in a shortened step caused by cerebral palsy, hemiplegia due to stroke, or traumatic brain injury
• Out-toed gait in a child <7 years caused by diminished femoral torsion, excessive lateral tibiofibular torsion, hip outward rotation bias, knee joint ligament laxity

Features

• Improved step length
• Improve load-bearing alignment
• Assist quadriceps during the late swing phase
• Defers or avoids the need for surgical long bone correction
• Supporting, assisting, and strengthening the lower abdominals
• Appropriate knee joint modeling in developing infants and children
• Uses physiologic adaptation and skeletal modeling capacities in daily function
• Use joint links to influence foot alignment and function by realigning the leg segments